This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Across the country, pediatric care systems are delivering high quality, increasingly complex care in environments that no longer resemble those in which many Medicaid payment models were designed. The ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront featured topic, Accountable Care for Population Health, featuring analysis and discussion of how to understand, design, support, and measure ...

Primary care physicians are often called the quarterbacks of healthcare because they coordinate and direct patients’ journeys through the medical system. On a typical NFL team, the quarterback is the ...

It’s a hell of a starting point: The work of providing primary care is already overwhelming. But trying to get paid for that work in the traditional fee-for-service (FFS) payment system has become ...

Long-standing workforce challenges in Medicaid home care (also known as home- and community-based services or HCBS) impact care for the over 5 million people who use these services. Shortages and high ...

Value-based care models in oncology must be adaptable to balance quality, cost, and patient outcomes amid evolving clinical practices and cost structures. Advanced therapies complicate payment model ...